I honestly don’t see the Cubs as a good fit for the Yanks to deal with. They have very little in the way of top prospects and they certainly don’t have much in the way of major league caliber players beyond Derrek Lee who obviously isn’t being traded.

As much as I utterly detest ARod at this point, I’d really rather not trade him to Chicago since the Yanks can get more from Houston, LA, Anaheim, San Diego, and the White Sox.

Correlating A-Rod and the 4 million attendance figure is baseless. The Yanks are baseball’s #1 ticket, primarily because large portions of baseball game attendees only go see teams that win. Stands to reason that as long as they keep starting each season as a WS favorite/contender, they will continue to pack the place.

Besides, there’s only 2 more years in the current YS, and starting in 2009, Steinbrenner could put Jeter and eight Nick Greens on the field and sell the place out thru 2012.

The Cubs farm suck man….. the only advantage in dealing with the Cubs is that their FO has a pretty long history of extreme stupidity… then again, the Dodgers havn’t exactly made the best deals this year either (the only good deals they pulled were with even dumber teams… Cubs and Nats… surprise!!) and they actually have a great farm.

I would still want Kuo or Billingsly/ Laroche / Brazobon or Broxton or some other prospects. I think this is probably the most realistic and reasonable deal for the Yankees to pull off if there’s a deal to be pulled.